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ion of young people demands
ditionally that it be “now” in
e area of sex education, a
rominant Austin clergyman and
}cial worker says.
“What they are seeking is ful-
illment and meaningful personal
elationships,” explained Dr. Rob-
rt E. Ledbetter Jr. in a Health
Iducation Seminar.
Pointing out that one of the
lost important social area re-
Mdonships is between man and
roman, the marriage-family re-
itions counselor believes proper-
y oriented sex education will
ave positive answers to a whole
luster of social problems.
“Teenagers and young adults
ire participants in a new free-
lom . . . called by some the ‘age
if consent’,” the University of
Eexas Mental Hygiene Clinic staff
nember remarked. “They have a
itraight-forward way of dealing
vith a topic. They talk about it
dien it needs talking about.”
THE TROUBLE, as Ledbetter
sees it, is that sex education of
roung people has been poorly
ilanned and haphazardly handled,
faster Egg Hunt
Set For Hensel
The Apartment Council will
sponsor an Easter egg hunt at
2 p.m. Sunday in Hensel Park.
The hunt is open to all chil
dren of Apartment Council Ac-
;ivity Card holders or at 20 cents
per child for others. Prizes,
eggs and candy will be available
for the youngsters.
The activity cards, which may
3e bought Sunday for $3.50, will
admit one couple to the Civilian
Weekend dance and barbecue and
other Council activities.
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want an honest appraisal,” he
said.
ELECTED recording secretary
was John Beckham, assistant
dean of the College of Science.
The committee designated four
problem areas in computer regis
tration: its effects on students,
on departments, on colleges and
on system procedures.
System procedures, the com
mittee agreed, included basic poli
cies on the preferred treatment
of some students to others, handl
ing the student traffic in the
add-drop procedure, and prevent
ing computer printouts from be
ing returned to the departments.
After the meeting, the sub
committees each elected a spokes
man and a recording secretary.
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Fourty-four 1-0 games were
played in the National League
Last season, a major league
record.
if at all.
Adults, pleading embarrass
ment or acting Victorian when
the topic comes up, have been
purposefully withholding infor
mation and “aiding and abetting
immorality, contributing to ille
gitimacy, venereal diseases and
juvenile delinquency,” the speaker
reasoned.
He cited several statistical in
dications of the “age of immor
ality” but noted some experts
refute the findings.
“For example, one source pre
dicts that one of every six girls
now 13 years of age will bear a
child out of wedlock by age 20,”
the ordained minister offered.
“WHAT IS important is that
young people and young adults
are assuming more responsibility
for their conduct,” he added.
They continue to look to parents
and teachers for illumination of
their own feelings, realizing a
tremendous need for some under
standing of human sexuality.
Ledbetter reported that three
of four public schools will have
sex education programs in their
curricula this fall and that the
programs will need the complete
support of school-agers’ parents.
“There are three effective
sources of sex education, peers,
schools and mass media,” he
noted. “Schools provide the most
important means because it is
the only method that takes ad
vantage of self-conscious pro
gramming. Yet it is the least
efficient.”
“And notice I haven’t even
mentioned parents or churches.
We’ve got to admit we’ve not
handled the problem well in the
past. Parents have the first re
sponsibility for setting their
children’s values, but this has
been abdicated. The process is
now put on our public schools,”
Ledbetter continued.
HE ADMITS there are prob
lems in the school programs. Sex
education must be structured to
provide physiological and biologi
cal reasons for human sexuality.
More important to the majority
nf teenagers who know the me
chanical details are the psycho
logical aspects.
“They want questions answered
about attitudes that relate to
feelings on human sexuality,”
added the social worker who has
dealt with youth in the Travis
County Juvenile Court and Hous
ton’s Jewish Family Service.
He admits most teachers prob
ably are not equipped to handle
such questions, but that only re
cently in Austin have schools
turned to UT clinic personnel for
assistance.
“The problem is not all with
the socio-economically deprived,”
Ledbetter asserts. “An Austin
lawyer, a well-educated man.
called me for assistance. He was
embarrassed to attempt to an
swer the questions of his 15-year-
old son.”
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Wartime Transport Demands
Mean Speculation: McGruder
“Cold comfort” can be taken
in the fact that U. S. transport
capability might better sustain
nuclear attack than the transport
users, the director of the Office
of Emergency Transportation ob
served here.
OET Director John L. McGru
der was one of the key partici
pants in the 11th annual Trans
portation Conference jointly spon
sored by the Department of
Transportation and Texas A&M.
The two-day meeting on “Emer
gency Control of Transportation”
concluded Friday.
“In the event of a general nu
clear war, there is relatively little
experience to go on,” McGruder
pointed out. “We must speculate
—and try to simulate—what the
conditions and demands would
be.”
He said it is generally recog
nized that full-scale nuclear war
would create a vastly different
situation than existed in World
War II, but he pointed out it is
possible for the U. S. to find
itself in a limited war, the con
ditions of which resemble those
of Warld War II.
“BOTH conditions,” McGruder
emphasized, “share one common
essential of preparedness: an in
telligent and informed body of
transportation people—in and out
of government—who will work
together to resolve the nation’s
transport problems.”
“In any such national crisis,”
he continued, we must expect
some breaks with custom and the
past.”
Priority requirements for
transport, the OET executive ex
plained, will be defined by the
government with the military,
international, industrial and con
sumer complexes competing for
priority.
DETERMINATIONS will be
made by the government, Mc
Gruder continued, and can be
expected to change as the situ
ation changes — as requirements
and their relative priorities and
the availability of transport
change.
“We cannot know now what
the transport demand and supply
will be,” he added, “so we cannot
definitively allocate now, in ad
vance, the transport to fill antici
pated needs.”
If it should ever occur, the
actual situation would probably
require completely different allo
cations, the federal official ad
mitted, but emphasized now is
the time to begin thinking of the
needs and the measures to fulfill
them.
“WE CAN, now, develop pro
cedures by which we would
operate, to make and implement
decisions in emergencies,” Mc
Gruder reasoned. “We can, now,
develop standby procedures for
control of the use of U. S. civil
transport under emergency con
ditions and we can develop an
informed corps of transportation
people who would constitute our
greatest resource.”
“If we continue to give this
our attention,” he concluded, “we
will be better prepared to meet
whatever emergency our nation
may face in the future—and our
controls will enhance, and not
interfere with, effective trans
port use.”
The conference attracted 150
industrial and governmental
transportation officials from
throughout the nation.
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